送祝福

A Practice of Blessing
送祝福

And at first, for most of us, we won’t be able to just make those thoughts stop. So when a thought comes that is not helping you or helping others, and you notice it, then you need to create the opposite thoughts. I’ll give you some examples.

一開始，對大部分人來說，我們都無法立刻止息這些念頭。所以當損人不利己的念頭來時，你要注意它，然後你得想一個相反的念頭。我給你一些例子。

If you are upset at somebody else, and every time you think of this person, whether you see them or they come to you mind, you start to grumble and think not-so-nice things about that person, what you need to do, if you made the commitment to change, is you need to bless that person. And this is a big commitment.

如果你對某人生氣，每次想到這個人，不論是看到或想到，你就開始發牢騷並想到對他不好的事。如果你承諾要改變，此時你需要做的事就是祝福那個人，這是很大的承諾。

Because at first, your mind will go, “I’m not going to bless that person. He made me mad. Why should I bless him? He took something from me, or he said nasty things about me, “But remember, you made a commitment to change. And changing has nothing to do with whether this person you are mad at is good or bad or right or wrong. It’s about you.

因為一開始你的心念會說：「我才不要祝福那個人，他使我生氣。」「我為什麼要祝福他，他拿了我的東西或講過我的壞話。」
但記得你已承諾要改變，「改變」與這個你對他生氣的人是好是壞是對是錯完全無關，我們要改變的是「你」。

You have to usually begin very small when you bless them because it’s very hard for us to change from being mad to blessing. So you can give this person a small blessing. A small blessing may be, “Oh! I hope their day isn’t too bad.” And then the next day, it will be time for you to give a bigger blessing: “Oh! I want them to have a good day.”

你通常只能從小祝福開始，因為從生氣改變成祝福很難。所以，你可以對他做個小小祝福。一個小小祝福，也許是「噢！我希望他們的日子過得不是很差。」接著，第二天，就該是你做更大祝福的時候，「噢！我希望他們過得很好！」

And then your mind will start to jump back and go, “Well, I don’t know about that. “And this is where every time your mind has resistance, you must bless them again. Your blessing must become larger than your negativity. And a miracle will begin to happen. With time, your negativity will begin to evaporate. And that blessing will grow large and larger.

然後你的心念又會跳回來：「是嗎？我不是很想這樣。」這就是你的心念在抵抗，你得再祝福一次。你的祝福一定要大於負面想法，然後奇蹟就會開始發生。隨著時間，你的負面想法會漸漸消失，祝福會越來越大。

And with time, that blessing will no longer be connected to a person. The blessing will be blessing because it feels so good to bless. And then you will realize how much better you feel. You will want to start blessing all kinds of people because it feels so good. You will feel stronger and happier and healthier.

隨著時間，那祝福不再只是跟一個人有關而已。那祝福會自動作祝福這件事，因為在祝福時的感覺很好。你就會明白你感覺比以前好很多，你會想要祝福所有人，因為感覺太棒了。你會感覺更堅強、更快樂、更健康。

Then people will ask you, “What did you on your skin? You are starting to glow.” But it won’t be that you put anything on top; it will be glowing from within. This is the first type of exercise. This one is actually the easy one.

人們會問「你在皮膚上擦了什麼？你看起來滿面光采。」但不是外表上擦的，而是由內發光。但是第一種練習，是比較簡單的一個。


節錄自 滴水禪 琉璃光 Dr. Mitchell May

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